PlayStation announces new studio focused on ‘immersive multiplayer worlds’

Sony just announced a caller interior workplace called Team LFG, which volition beryllium processing “a team-based enactment game.” According to Sony Interactive Entertainment studios CEO Hermen Hulst, the workplace “originated astatine Bungie, but has besides rallied developers from crossed the manufacture to bring to beingness an ambitious incubation task that I’m precise excited about.”

Curiously, nary circumstantial developers were announced arsenic portion of the workplace reveal, truthful it’s not wide who is really moving astatine Team LFG. As portion of the station introducing the studio, it’s described arsenic “a squad composed not conscionable of manufacture veterans who person shipped titles similar Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, and Rec Room, but besides manufacture newcomers with caller originative perspectives and skills.“

The beingness of Team LFG is portion of PlayStation’s propulsion into unrecorded work games, which has been scaled back from its archetypal ambitious plan, and has suffered a bid of large setbacks.

Sony primitively acquired Destiny developer Bungie successful 2022, and the workplace went done multiple rounds of layoffs successful the pursuing years. When announcing layoffs successful 2024, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons said that “we are moving with PlayStation Studios enactment to rotation retired 1 of our incubation projects – an enactment crippled acceptable successful a brand-new science-fantasy beingness – to signifier a caller workplace wrong PlayStation Studios to proceed its promising development,” which appears to beryllium Team LFG. Bungie is presently moving connected a multiplayer shooter called Marathon.

Sony besides released the leader shooter Concord successful 2024, and the motorboat was truthful disastrous the crippled was taken offline and, eventually, its developer Firewalk Studios was shuttered.

It’s not wide however acold into improvement Team LFG’s archetypal merchandise is, nor erstwhile it mightiness beryllium decently announced. The workplace says that “we volition marque immersive multiplayer worlds propelled by enactment games that players tin learn, play, and maestro for countless hours” and that its archetypal crippled “draws inspiration from warring games, platformers, MOBAs, beingness sims, and frog-type games.” The workplace adds that “players volition inhabit a lighthearted, comedic satellite acceptable successful brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe.”